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SQL row versioning to capture deltas

by: admin2021-05-16

There is a very powerful feature in SQL Server that if you know how to take advantage of can cut down on the amount of […]

Development, SQL Server, SSIS

SSIS Custom Task XML Corruption

by: admin2020-12-20

Introduction I usually like to keep any explanation I write to be straight to the point, but informational and no fluff. There are times where […]

Development, SQL Server

Biases in naming database objects

by: admin2020-08-01

Introduction Over my whole software engineering career, I have watched and learned the right way and the wrong way to style and format code. Especially […]

Development, SQL Server

Offline installation of Microsoft Machine Learning server components SQL 2019 is stuck

by: admin2020-04-05

Problem You are installing SQL Server 2019 and you get stuck at the Machine Learning Server Components installation step. Your installer could not download the […]

Development, SQL Server

Enlarging a CHAR column

by: admin2020-03-05

Scenario As usual when you don’t do something for a very long time, it is easy to forget what you knew already. I had to […]

Development, SQL Server

Small date time is garbage and you should stop using it

by: admin2020-02-18

Smalldatetime has been obsolete for a long time now get with the program A major pet peeve of mine is the smalldatetime datatype from SQL […]

Development, SQL Server

Error: The SQL command requires a parameter named “”, which is not found in the parameter mapping.

by: admin2020-02-04

Gotcha This is a problem I have encountered a few times already when using SSIS with an OLE DB Source and a stored procedure. All […]

Development, SQL Server

SSIS loop and container continue on error

by: admin2020-01-27

Obscure and not straight forward This is one of those things I can never remember because it doesn’t come up that often. This is usually […]

Development, SQL Server

Visual Studio 2017 SSIS unable to start debugging

by: admin2020-01-20

Error details For what it’s worth here are the error details. Microsoft’s handling of SSDT isn’t good I have criticized Microsoft about this before here […]

Development, SQL Server

Pivoting data without an aggregation column

by: admin2019-10-18

Don’t use PIVOT for non-aggregate-able data I ran into a rather displeasurable experience where a separate team of people built some very important tools for […]

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